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Google’s New Switch Transformer Model Achieves 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Efficiency Gains

Last year, OpenAI wowed the world with its eerily human language generator, GPT-3. The autoregressive model stood at a then-staggering 175 billion parameters, ten times higher than its predecessors. Now, Google is upping Read more…

2021: The Year of the Feature Store

Don’t look now, but feature stores--systems for developing, maintaining, and monitoring the data features used by machine learning algorithms for training and inference--are popping up all around us. Amazon Web Service Read more…

Building Monster Mash-Ups: How Data as a Service Can Crystallize Analytics

The chances are that if you’re reading this you have heard the phrase “Data is the new oil,” coined by Clive Humby, the British mathematician and architect of early supermarket loyalty rewards schemes. Although it� Read more…

Peering Into the Crystal Ball of Advanced Analytics

The world of advanced analytics was evolving quickly at the end of 2020. And according to our panel of experts who volunteered predictions on the topic, the accelerated pace of change in advanced data analytics will cont Read more…

Johns Hopkins Launches COVID-19 Mortality Calculator, Aims to Inform Vaccine Prioritization

The first COVID-19 vaccine doses are going out in the United States, predominantly to frontline healthcare workers. Unfortunately, the vaccines are currently extremely limited, meaning that state governments are having t Read more…

News In Brief

New KX Report Analyzes Business Impact of Real-time Analytics

Real-time analytics, also known as streaming analytics, is a subset of data analytics that helps businesses obtain real-time insights and predictions from large volumes of data to allow for optimal, immediate decision ma Read more…

Accenture Report Explores the ‘Unreal’ World of Synthetic Data and Generative AI

Accenture has released its Accenture Technology Vision 2022, a report examining key technologies under the theme “Meet Me in the Metaverse: The Continuum of Technology and Experience Reshaping Business.” The repor Read more…

Databricks Launches Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Databricks has announced the launch of its new lakehouse platform, the Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences. According to the company's press release, Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Scie Read more…

Confluent Delivers New Cluster Controls, Data Connectors for Hosted Kafka

Confluent today unveiled a string of new enhancements for its Apache Kafka-based streaming data offering, including new source and sink data connectors, new controls for expanding and shrinking Kafka clusters, and enhanc Read more…

Alteryx to Acquire Data Wrangler Trifacta for $400 Million

Data analytics software developer Alteryx today announced its intent to acquire Trifacta, a provider of data wrangling solutions. The deal, which has not yet closed, will see Alteryx paying Trifacta $400 million in cash, Read more…

This Just In

TheMathCompany and Streamingo Partner to Enhance Retail with AI-Driven Planogram Compliance Solutions

Jul 18, 2023 |

CHICAGO, July 18, 2023 — TheMathCompany, an Illinois-headquartered leading global data analytics and engineering firm, announced its strategic partnership with Streamingo, an AI-based solution provider specializing in video and consumer behavior analysis. Read more…

Data Extraction Tool May Lead to Discovery of New Polymers

Jul 14, 2023 |

July 14, 2023 — The amount of published materials science research is growing at an exponential rate, too fast for scientists to keep up. To help these scholars, a first-of-its-kind materials science data extraction pipeline is now available to make their research easier and faster. Read more…

Esri and The Washington Post Unveil Spatial Data-Driven ‘Heat Tracker’ as Part of Climate Reporting

Jul 13, 2023 |

REDLANDS, Calif., July 13, 2023 — From COVID-19 and elections to international political conflicts like the war in Ukraine, almost every current event and issue is shaped and framed by geographic elements. Read more…

Esri Releases Latest Land Cover Map with Improved AI Modeling

Jul 10, 2023 |

REDLANDS, Calif., July 10, 2023 — Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) maps contextualize and quantify the impacts of earth processes and human activity on the environment. Organizations around the world are now using these tools to inform policy and land management decisions around issues like sustainable development. Read more…

ARM Data Center: The DOE Powerhouse Behind Climate Data Analytics and Predictive Climate Modeling

Jul 10, 2023 |

July 10, 2023 — From the Arctic to the Amazon, understanding the atmosphere is key to understanding our climate and other Earth systems. The ARM Data Center collects and manages global observational and experimental data amassed by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility. Read more…

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